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Hope Leslie, or, Early times in the Massachusetts: Or, Early Times In The Massachusetts (American Women Writers Ser.)
Par Catharine Maria Sedgwick. 1987
Set in seventeenth-century New England, Hope Leslie portrays early American life and celebrates the role of women in history. At…
the heart of the story is a cross-cultural friendship between Hope-Leslie, a spirited thinker in a repressive Puritan society and Magawisca, the passionate daughter of a Pequot chief. It challenges the conventional view of Indians, tackles interracial marriage and claims for women their rightful place in history. Adult. UnratedAll aboard the schooltrain: a little story from the Great Migration
Par Glenda Armand. 2023
My hands sing the blues: Romare Bearden's childhood journey
Par Jeanne Walker Harvey. 2011
As a young boy growing up in North Carolina, Romare Bearden listened to his great-grandmother's Cherokee stories and heard the…
whistle of the train that took his people to the North people who wanted to be free. When Romare and his family, faced with Jim Crow laws, boarded that same train, he watched out the window as the world whizzed by. Later he captured those scenes in a famous painting, Watching the Good Trains Go By. Using that painting as inspiration and creating a text influenced by the blues and jazz that Bearden loved, Jeanne Walker Harvey tells the story of Bearden's children by describing the patchwork of daily southern life that Romare saw out the train's window and the story of his arrival in shimmering New York City. Artists and critics today praise Bearden's collages for their visual metaphors honoring his past, African American culture, and the human experience. 2011. For grades K-3We the Sea Turtles: A collection of island stories
Par Michelle Kadarusman. 2023
In a collection of powerful stories by Governor General’s Award-nominated author Michelle Kadarusman, eight children on islands around the world…
are each changed by a chance meeting with a turtle as they find their own grounding in an increasingly unpredictable world.The Perfect Sushi
Par Emily Satoko Seo. 2023
Miko likes things to be perfect. When she makes lopsided sushi for her grandmother’s birthday, she replaces it with perfectly…
formed sushi created by a restaurant robot. Upon delivering her gift, Miko discovers that kokoro (heart) – not impeccability – is the key ingredient to the perfect present. Sprinkled with engaging onomatopoeia, this unique title is infused with Japanese culture and delivers a universal message about the value of intention. A do-it-yourself sushi recipe is included.Autumn Bird and the Runaway
Par Melanie Florence, Richard Scrimger. 2022
Two kids from different worlds form an unexpected friendship.Cody’s home life is a messy, too-often terrifying story of neglect and…
abuse. Cody himself is a smart kid, a survivor with a wicked sense of humour that helps him see past his circumstances and begin to try to get himself out.Autumn is, quite literally, on the other side of the tracks from him. Her home life is loving and secure, and she is “in” with the popular girls at school, even if she has a secret life as a glasses-wearing, self-professed comic book nerd at home. And even if the pressure to fit in at school requires hours of time spent making herself look “perfect.”Returning home from a movie one evening, Autumn comes across Cody, face down in the laneway behind her house. All Cody knows is that he can’t take another beating from his father like the one he just narrowly escaped. He can’t go home, but he doesn’t have anywhere else to go either. Autumn won’t turn her back on him, even if they never really were friends at school. She agrees to let him hide out in her dad’s art studio at night.Over the next couple of days of Autumn sneaking Cody food and bandages, his story comes out. And so does hers.Told in alternating narratives, Autumn Bird and the Runaway is a breathtaking collaboration by two of Canada’s finest writers of books for young readers. Infused with themes of identity, belonging and compassion, it’s a story that reminds us that we are all more than our circumstances, and we are all more connected than we think.THE STUNNING AND ROMANTIC NEW NOVEL FROM SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR VERONICA HENRY - PRE-ORDER NOW!'Magical, romantic, fantastique' MILLY JOHNSON'A…
perfect Parisian fantasy every woman will love' KATIE FFORDE'Wow, wow, WOW. Her best and most perfect book yet. I adored every word. Sublime, as always' JILL MANSELL'The perfect weekend read. I was so captivated I didn't notice I was turning the pages' FANNY BLAKEBecause Paris is always a good idea...Years ago, Juliet left a little piece of her heart in Paris - and now, separated from her husband and with her children flying the nest, it's time to get it back!So she puts on her best red lipstick, books a cosy attic apartment near Notre-Dame and takes the next train out of London.Arriving at the Gare du Nord, the memories come flooding back: bustling street cafés, cheap wine in candlelit bars and a handsome boy with glittering eyes.But Juliet has also been keeping a secret for over two decades - and she begins to realise it's impossible to move forwards without first looking back.Something tells her that the next thirty days might just change everything...Your favourite authors are loving Thirty Days in Paris!'Gorgeously romantic. A lovely slice of Paris life' JO THOMAS'I loved this gorgeous, hopeful story of second chances in the City of Lights!' LIZ FENWICK'A gloriously escapist read, I absolutely loved it!' KATE EBERLEN'A delicious, dreamy, joy of a book' LIBBY PAGE'I was immersed in and inspired by this exquisitely told love story' HEIDI SWAIN'Captures the romance and magic of Paris perfectly. A blissful escape' SARAH MORGAN'A story of second chances and the most uplifting getaway' LUCY DIAMOND'Gloriously escapist and filled with joie de vivre' ALEX BROWN'Irresistibly romantic and bursting with joie de vivre. I adored it' PHILLIPA ASHLEY'A sumptuous, joyfully indulgent treat of a book. I devoured it' CRESSIDA McLAUGHLIN'Such wonderful characters & the perfect setting. BIG recommendation!' CARI ROSEN'Absolutely perfect for anyone who loves Paris and twisty love stories - a five star read!' LORRAINE BROWNTHE STUNNING AND ROMANTIC NEW NOVEL FROM SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR VERONICA HENRY - PRE-ORDER NOW!'Magical, romantic, fantastique' MILLY JOHNSON'A…
perfect Parisian fantasy every woman will love' KATIE FFORDE'Wow, wow, WOW. Her best and most perfect book yet. I adored every word. Sublime, as always' JILL MANSELL'The perfect weekend read. I was so captivated I didn't notice I was turning the pages' FANNY BLAKEBecause Paris is always a good idea...Years ago, Juliet left a little piece of her heart in Paris - and now, separated from her husband and with her children flying the nest, it's time to get it back!So she puts on her best red lipstick, books a cosy attic apartment near Notre-Dame and takes the next train out of London.Arriving at the Gare du Nord, the memories come flooding back: bustling street cafés, cheap wine in candlelit bars and a handsome boy with glittering eyes.But Juliet has also been keeping a secret for over two decades - and she begins to realise it's impossible to move forwards without first looking back.Something tells her that the next thirty days might just change everything...Your favourite authors are loving Thirty Days in Paris!'Gorgeously romantic. A lovely slice of Paris life' JO THOMAS'I loved this gorgeous, hopeful story of second chances in the City of Lights!' LIZ FENWICK'A gloriously escapist read, I absolutely loved it!' KATE EBERLEN'A delicious, dreamy, joy of a book' LIBBY PAGE'I was immersed in and inspired by this exquisitely told love story' HEIDI SWAIN'Captures the romance and magic of Paris perfectly. A blissful escape' SARAH MORGAN'A story of second chances and the most uplifting getaway' LUCY DIAMOND'Gloriously escapist and filled with joie de vivre' ALEX BROWN'Irresistibly romantic and bursting with joie de vivre. I adored it' PHILLIPA ASHLEY'A sumptuous, joyfully indulgent treat of a book. I devoured it' CRESSIDA McLAUGHLIN'Such wonderful characters & the perfect setting. BIG recommendation!' CARI ROSEN'Absolutely perfect for anyone who loves Paris and twisty love stories - a five star read!' LORRAINE BROWNThe Warmest December: Gathering Of Waters, Glorious, The Warmest December, And Nowhere Is A Place
Par Bernice L. McFadden. 2012
"McFadden's reissued second novel takes an unflinching look at the corrosive nature of alcoholism . . . This is not…
a story of easy redemption . . . McFadden writes candidly about the treacherous hold of addiction."--Publishers Weekly"Riveting. . . . So nicely avoids the sentimentality that swirls around the subject matter. I am as impressed by its structural strength as by the searing and expertly imagined scenes."--Toni Morrison, author of Beloved"The sharpness of the prose and power of the story make it hard to stop reading even the most brutal scenes . . . The story feels real perhaps because it’s familiar . . . Or maybe, as Frey points out, the story is too vivid to be read purely as fiction. But in this Precious-style novel, genre is the least of our concerns."--Bust magazine"This is a story that cuts across all race and social strata in its need to be told."--The Dallas Morning NewsThe Warmest December is the incredibly moving story of one Brooklyn family and the alcoholism that determined years of their lives. Narrated by Kenzie Lowe, a young woman reminiscent of Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John, as she visits her dying father and finds that choices she once thought beyond her control are very much hers to make.Bernice L. McFadden is the author of seven critically acclaimed novels.